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A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and four 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with l...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540